[Labs-l] Plan for improving Tool Labs docs this week

[Alex Brollo]

+1 :-)

Remember of poor DIY (Do It Yourself) "programmers" and please consider to
open a Village Pump into wikitech. Imho, Village pumps, email lists and
#icr channels have a complementary role.

Alex brollo


2013/8/21 Silke Meyer <silke.meyer at wikimedia.de>

> Thanks a lot, Kirsten and Sumana!
> :) Silke
>
>
> On 21.08.2013 06:11, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
> > On 08/16/2013 06:23 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
> > Subject: Re: Plan for improving Tool Labs docs next week
> >> At Wikimania, I sat in on one of the three sessions about Tool Labs
> >> (thank you, Coren, Ryan, and Silke for doing those!), and asked about
> >> barriers to switching.  Aside from the storage issues, it sounds like
> >> people get lost in obsolete documentation.  So I spoke with Kirsten
> >> today and we've come up with a plan: what do you think?
> >>
> >> 1. Between now and Tuesday 20 August, Kirsten will improve
> >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Kmenger/ToolLabsGuide (the product
> >> of the July doc sprint) and fill in Pywikipedia and Git/Gerrit stuff.
> >> You are welcome to improve it right now to correct errors.
> >
> > Done.
> >
> >> 2. On Tuesday, we'll replace the Tool Labs help page(s) on
> >> wikitech.wikimedia.org with the new Tool Labs Guide.
> >
> > Done.
> >
> > In the next couple days it would also be good to clean up
> > https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Tools#Useful_links ,
> > link appropriately to
> >
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs/Tool_Labs/Migration_of_Toolserver_tools
> > , ensure that all the questions from
> >
> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Move_your_bot_to_Labs&oldid=11520#Set_up_your_bot
> > get answered in
> > https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Tools/Help , and add
> > more terms to https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Terminology .  I
> > would love help with these odds and ends.
> >
> >> 3. A couple of days after that, we'll publicize the new guide via IRC,
> >> social media, labs-l, maybe blog.wikimedia.org, various WMF
> >> wikis/village pumps/the weekly Tech News/etc.
> >> 4. Hopefully on Friday of next week, I'll hold an IRC sprint to consult
> >> with Ryan, Silke, and Coren and start to go through other current Tool
> >> Labs-related documentation to update/redirect/obsolete everything.
> >> Anyone who wants to can get started with the updating right now, of
> >> course.  See the list below and suggestions for what to do with each
> >> page -- thanks for compiling this, Kirsten!
> >>
> >> Does this sound good?  I shall read silence as consent. :-)
> >
> > I've gotten silence or +1 from various folks, so we're moving ahead with
> > this. :-)
> >
>
>
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